...knaves, footpads, and adjustersemployed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
on Thursday transferred a detainee from its Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba to Belize and is preparing to transfer at least two more in the coming weeks. All three are Pak citizens.
Majid Khan left Guantanamo early Thursday and arrived in Belize several hours later. He is the first detainee to be resettled by the Biden administration and one of the few to be sent to a location in the Western Hemisphere.
The other two expected to be released soon are Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani and Mohammad Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani.
| Possibly they are in the Rantburg archives under slight different spelling or a different configuration of their names. |
| Hopefully he really did have a change of heart instead of spewing taqiyya like squid ink before returning to old habits. |
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
. He was granted asylum in the US in 1998, while attending high school near Baltimore but remained a Pak citizen.
He returned to Pakistain in 2002 and, according to a US Defence Department detainee assessment, joined Al Qaeda and became a direct subordinate to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), Al Qaeda’s senior operational planner and the principal architect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Khan was arrested in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
in March 2003 and taken to a CIA black site where he was subjected to sleep deprivation, an ice water bath, and forced rectal feeding and rehydration. The chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 89.53632, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator...
, called the treatment torture. In September 2006, then-President George W. Bush announced that Khan was one of 14 "high value detainees" being transferred from CIA detention facilities to Guantanamo Bay to face the military tribunal system.
In 2012, Khan pled guilty to terrorism-related charges and was sentenced to 10 years detention. That sentence ended March 1, 2022. Khan still has family in the US, but US federal law does not allow Guantanamo detainees to be resettled in the country.
Aliya Hussain, an advocacy program manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, who has worked on Khan’s case for more than a decade, said, "Today did not seem possible when we started. We wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the unwavering commitment of everyone who has represented Majid."
| Update from Wikipedia at 8:30 a.m. ET on the name Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani: alternate names on Guantanamo Bay paperwork: Abdul Al-Rahim Ghulam Rabbani and Abu Rahim Moulana Gulam Rabbani, which are also not in the Rantburg archives. He was born in Mecca approximately 1969 to a Pakistani family that spent many years in Saudi Arabia, at some point joined Al Qaeda and trained in Afghanistan. He and his brother were captured and taken to the CIA black site called the salt pit, then turned over to GITMO in 2004. Under President Obama’s rules for GITMO, Mr. Rabbani was one of 71 prisoners deemed too innocent to charge but too dangerous to release, which makes no sense to me. Wikipedia on brother Mohammad Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani: Mohammad Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani was born in Medina in 1970, went home to Karachi in the 1990s, where he claims he worked as a driver and guide for visiting Arabs, and claims that this association was the reason the authorities handed him over to the Americans... or possibly it was a case of mistaken identity. That jihadism is often a family affair he could be suspected of does not seem to have occurred to him, and his file accuses him of the same things as he elder brother. He spent two years with his brother at various CIA black sites before being sent with him to GITMO in 2004. |
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Guantanamo Bay: 2022-09-20 Biden swaps Taliban drug lord for US contractor held in Afghanistan
Shame to see it not being used for something, since we paid for it.